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Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990's. When a crew of foreign workers are massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay, come what may.
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Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990's. When a crew of foreign workers are massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay, come what may.
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Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990's. When a crew of foreign workers are massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay, come what may. Includes bonus...
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"A French police drama about a squad of Parisian policeman who exist in the blurred boundaries at the edge of the law, often using violence and intimidation to get the job done. The lives of the officers change radically when their squad leader, falsely accused of corruption, commits suicide. In an effort to clear his name, they start their own investigation, only to find that the police department itself stands in their way"--Back of container.
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Blending unflinching realism with moments of startling, light-filled beauty, the film finds unexpected philosophical richness in the quotidian, small-town existence of Freddy, an aimless young man with epilepsy who, in his childlike simplicity, embodies both great tenderness and terrifying brutality. Leaving the film's cryptic title tantalizingly open to interpretation, Dumont dares viewers to see the divine in a seemingly dead-end world.
6) La haine
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Criterion collection volume 381
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Saïd is an Arab, Hubert is black, and Vinz is a Jew, all of them young, unemployed and living in a dreary, troubled Paris suburb, largely inhabited by poor immigrant families. Each of them needs to vent the anger they feel about the police brutality that landed another friend in the hospital. The film focuses on one day in the lives of these three hoodlum friends and the result is a brutal, harrowing study of the cyclical nature of violence.
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After their group leader is falsely convicted and commits suicide, three policemen are ready to cross the thin red line, challenging the inertia and indifference of the bureaucracy that drove their friend to his death. Under pressure from Internal Affairs, they turn their backs on the rules and abandon their ideals. The three cops choose an adrenaline-fuelled life full of big risks, questionable tactics, money, blood and death. Every time they cross...
8) Mouton
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The destiny of a simple life as a seaside restaurant employee for 17-year-old Aurelian (David Merabet), nicknamed "Mouton" (sheep) is torn away one tragic night. What remains are his various "friends" and their continued lives around the seaside.
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Great African films volume 3
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Daratt: The government of Chad granted amnesty to war criminals in 2006, following forty years of civil strife. Atim, age 16, is given a revolver by his grandfather so that he may find and kill the man who killed his father. Atim quickly locates Nassara, now married and living as a baker in a nearby village. Pretending to be looking for work, Atim is hired as an apprentice baker. Despite his disgust, Atim gradually recognizes the father figure...
10) 10 1/2
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At only age 10-and-a-half, Tommy is well known to the local social service agencies for his tendencies towards violence. Judged incorrigible, Tommy rebels against all authority and has been abandoned by all who know him, except for his halfway house guardian, Gilles, who sees a glimmer of hope in the eyes of the young boy. Gilles may be Tommy's last chance for a normal life.